Grafana will let you send HTML in the “Text” such as a link to the release notes

The tags are separated by commas

Pulling the data into Grafana

The annotation can be pulled into Grafana as follows…

Per the Grafana docs, if you only select one field you don’t need to fill out the Column mappings and that field will automatically be pulled in as the title

Limitations

Annotations are created on a per dashboard basis….

They can’t apply to a single graph

They can’t apply to a single panel

They can’t apply across multiple dashboards

Conclusion

When I was first reading on annotations I found that a lot of information was missing from the Grafana annotation docs, so I’m hoping this will help a few people. Feel free to use the comments section below or hit me up on Twitter if you have comments or questions.